A Prayer for the Dying

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Historical
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Author: Stewart O'Nan ISBN: 9781466853256
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Publication: October 8, 2013
Imprint: Henry Holt and Co. Language: English
Author: Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 9781466853256
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Publication: October 8, 2013
Imprint: Henry Holt and Co.
Language: English

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

“A new masterpiece of American literature.” —Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly

A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner.” —Chuck Palahniuk

Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town's residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, Stewart O'Nan's A Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.

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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

“A new masterpiece of American literature.” —Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly

A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner.” —Chuck Palahniuk

Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town's residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, Stewart O'Nan's A Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man.

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